The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-19
The Belle of Sierra.

''Weve got girl up in our country" said
James Farwell of Sierra valley yesterday at
the Grand Hotel to San Francisco E,cop,-
liner reporter, "that discounts the world.
Amt another one like her anywhere. Make
good catch, too, for some fellow, only he
should have plenty of hustle to him, else
he'd get laid out. She's ripper. Runs
two ranches and makes barrel of money.
You see, she's a girl who is alone in the
world Two or three years ago her only re-
lative, brother, died, and consequently she
had to run the property. She is Miss Ellen
Callehan. Everybody throughout the Sierra
valley knows her. She can yoke up the
steers and plough as much in day as any
body. She can build fences, pitch hay, or
take her place with a crew of men at a
threshing-machine and keep even with any
of them AS for riding refractory noun
tain horses, she's a regular vaquero. It
takes very supple and long iointed nag to
get her off, now, tell you. He'd need to be
fabricated with the best material going to
do it.
miss Callehan has gone into the cattle
business good deal lately. 1t is only few
DAYS ago since she sold forty-six beeves in
one lot to James Miller for S3,31275. And,
if you think she amt shrewd on a trade,
all have to say is she got 12 C. for them,
which is the highest price paid in the Sierra
valley for several years.
''She wouldn't take paper money--nothing
but gold-and she carried it all nome with
her, and slowed it away in her cabin. She
has holy horror of banks, and thinks they
do little else but swindle. Now some people
might think this girl would be good game
for robbers, but she wouldn't. / have an
idea it would be a very sorry time for the
man who got to poking his nose about her
place She can shoot, and she does it, too,
whenever the occasion requires.
''No, never heard that she ever shot a
man, but she is as handy as any from
tiersman on the game that comes around
there
"'Is she prettyg'
mot from the city standpoint hardly, /
presume. Fact is the girls got too much to
do. But she is not over %, weighs about 100
ard is dashing and really attractive. If she
gave her time and attention to frills and
furbelows instead of bulls and beef, I'm free
to say think she would eclipse many of the
dazzlers who listen every night to the
music of the National Opera Company. The
girls environment has had much TO do with
the formation of her habits, the same as it
has with all persons. But Miss Callehan is
ambitious. She says she is soon going to
have piano and an extensive library, and
as soon as she turns off her other lot of
beef cattle. which will be early in the fall,
she is going to take life easier. My word
for it, Miss Calehan has the real stuff in
her, and Wen hear from her further and to
greater advantage before long.
'Some of the young ranchmen in the vi
cinity there have shown an inclination TO
win the young woman's hand. But she
hasn't encouraged them much. She says
most of them are no account.
II suppose Miss Callehan is about the best
Judge of live stock on the Pacific coast She
is TO the Pacific coast what Minnie Morgan
Is to the Atlantic. You know Miss Morgan
made such a reputation as Judge of hoof-
ed cattle and horses in the East that the
New York World wanted her, and now she
does the fine stock department exclusively
for that paper, the World paying her such
a salary that she writes for no other paper
whatever.
"At guessing on the weight of steer, or
on giving an opinion Of the points of n horse
or cow. Miss Callehan is acknowledged TO be
the queen Of that country"